Luigi Mangione disappeared months before United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson's fatal shooting

Months before United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson's death, suspect Luigi Mangione disappeared, and loved ones desperately tried to reach him.

Months before United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot to death on a Manhattan sidewalk, suspect Luigi Mangione went dark and loved ones desperately tried to find him.

They reached out to former classmates and posted pleas on social media for any word on his whereabouts. Rumors about his disappearance began circulating among his former classmates.

After months of silence and growing worry from his family and friends, Mangione finally resurfaced Monday when he was captured by police in Pennsylvania as the suspect in Thompson’s killing. Authorities said he was carrying a backpack containing a ghost gun, fake IDs, and a notebook and other writings detailing his grievances with the health care system.

Until he disappeared, the high-achieving young man from a prominent Baltimore family had led what many would consider a charmed life, finishing as valedictorian at an elite Maryland high school and traveling the world after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania.Friends and family described Mangione, who is being held without bail in a Pennsylvania correctional facility, as a kind and intelligent computer science graduate who enjoyed traveling and reading.

“He was the kind of person that you would know was going to do great things,” said his friend R.J. Martin, owner of Surfbreak, a co-living space in Honolulu, where Mangione lived for six months in 2022.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/luigi-mangione-disappeared-before-thompson-shooting-rcna183996

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